Japan: A New Age

The next day, the Matsumuras left at 8: 30 a.m. and walked to work in their five-minute office.

Incidentally, the normal working hours for Shinmatsu are from 9: 00 a.m. to 17: 00 p.m. In Japan, there are usually 8 hours, except for lunch breaks, or 7.5 hours of company, but 7 hours in Shinmatsu. Also, in Shinmatsu, when you bring a clock for a day in the 24 hours of the Earth, you need to shift the time each day, so a clock for Shinmatsu, which is currently 22.5 hours a day, is made and sold.

There is this clock so that time can be seen in the building, in the streets and in various parts of the office. In this sense, it is useful for the Matsumuras, who do not yet have a watch for Shinmama.

The office is on the second floor of a whitish three-story prefabricated building, the stairwell is outside and its floors are about 400 m2 occupying the entire building, with a corner divided as a meeting room. In the name plate, there is a city planning group. Prefabricated, but doesn't feel so cheap. As I go in, the middle-aged man sitting approached me.

"Mr. O Design? I'm called Mountain Castle of the advance team. You're the caretaker of the design unit that comes here. Your island is here."

When the Matsumuras nod to the inquiry, a desk is available for just a few people at the window.

Since one is placed in a position to look over the remaining 10 desks, it seems that the seat belongs to Matsumura. The buildings, chairs and desks are brand new, but they are made of steel that is normally found in Japan. Phones are not available, but the power supply is also normal.

"Uh, the power supply is 100V. Shinmatsu brings all of this from Earth, so changing it will result in export specifications. The phone hasn't been pulled because you all have a device, which means you don't need it for the moment. The internet is natural. However, we don't have enough satellites yet, so we can only guess GPS in and around Pearl City, yes, in the range of about 500 km. The toilet is on the left, exiting the door there. The water has a water dispenser like that, and for once tea and coffee are instant, but I keep them, so put them in and drink them yourself. Also, there's a fridge over there, so use it properly. Well, if you need anything, listen to me. Because I will always be there," Yamashiro explains.

When Matsumura Ichigo puts out his computer and is getting ready for work, a similar group comes and is guided to Yamashiro in the same way.

After 9 o'clock, a total of about 60 people, or roughly when the office is buried, Mountain Castle speaks up.

"By and large, all teams seem to be there, so I'd like to have a little meeting. Please gather in this conference room only for those in charge of each company."

The people in charge are coming together, but some of them already know each other because they have meetings in the country. When Matsumura entered the conference room, a white man of a small fat colour stood, dressed in working clothes, about 30 years old, alongside Yamashiro.

Six people in charge say they just walked into a room with a conference desk.

"Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for the long haul. My name is Willow from the Pearl City Development Office. There is an office on this third floor. Thank you for your time in the future. First, have a seat."

Everyone sat down, and Willow said, "Then please, by referring to yourself in turn. Uh, six groups: streets, sewers, waste, power, public buildings, and the urban environment. From the left, please," he urges.

At first it is Matsumura. "This is Matsumura, an OO design company. Responsible for sewerage. It is currently a team of 11 people, including me. As part of the city plan, we've already met some people in the country for a reunion, thank you."

In this way, introductions are made sequentially, and after general precautions, Willow Raw concludes.

"First of all, you all want to see the site, but first we're all going to take a look at the site and the site under construction. After that, divide it into groups and carry out inspections for the necessary investigations. The inspection starts at 1: 00 this afternoon, after lunch and will be filled tomorrow. May I?

Thus, the meeting was concluded.

Matsumura and the staff then went to greet the deeply related, streets and powered islands and immediately went into the work of a substantial crossing.

In the afternoon, about 60 design units take an anti-gravity engine-style bus and head out to the space port first.

In the overall plan, the space port is divided into four heights to occupy 100 km2, or 10 km x 10 km. Currently, only District A, closest to the city of Pearl, has been developed, proceeding up to about 70% to the ground level, and preparations have already begun to expand the range of construction further with concrete slabs set up in the range of about 0.5 km2. Now landing, 21 passenger ships have landed on concrete slabs, but 20 standard cargo planes and 2 super-large planes have landed on top of gravel pulled after grounding.

In addition, two military "Odora" flying frigates (recently known as Battle Starships) can be seen, which have small fuselages and are landed near the nearly built control tower.

Concrete slabs, in addition to control towers, and giant hangars are currently under construction, in addition, pipes are being dug back and buried everywhere. It also contains sewer pipes designed by Matsumura and others in Japan.

Being shown a map of the planned land, I get explained, but I am overwhelmed by its size, including even the overall plan.

In addition, the space port is 100 m high from Lake Pearl, where you can see the lake down from the observation deck, but you can't see faintly to the opposite bank 240 km away, not to mention the West Bank, which has a 320 km Kibo oil production base, and the furthest East Bank, which has 580 km. On Pearl Lake, two ships, which would be cruise ships, are cruised to the pier.

If not before the development of gravity engines, where many ships operate for the carriage of luggage, gravity engine-powered cargo aircraft are now overwhelmingly advantageous, not only in time but also in cost.

The next line extends the leg of the inspection to the city of Pearl, 5 km from the terminal district of the space port. However, it is an edge close to the city's space port, from which it is 10 km south to Pearl Harbor, and an additional 10 km of city is planned to be stretched east and west respectively. Essentially, however, their current location is planned to become the city's substantive centre, administrative and commercial district, and their accommodation and offices are also in that district.

As things stand, street tidiness is roughly in the 5 km x 5 km range, street paving is almost finished in the 1 km x 2 km range, and nearly 100 more buildings are being constructed simultaneously. Those who see there basically supervise, and the actual work is carried out by a lot of heavy machinery and general purpose robots for construction.

Robots can work day and night, so construction is very fast. The most rushed of the various works was the Pearl University building, which, as it stands, is nearly 90% of the progress, he said.

Leaving the district where the construction is under way, head to the neighborhood on Lake Pearl. As it stands, it is only tidied along the routes planned for the main streets, but the buses proceed in floating conditions, so there is no obstacle at all. Every 100 to 200 m in the meadows per area, large trees with a diameter of more than 30 m can be seen at about 15 m high. An expert in the urban environment argues that the layout of the city is planned in order not to cut that tree as far as possible, but to take it into town.

Nevertheless, the sight of flat land stretching more than 10 km towards the lake is overwhelming as it lived in Japan's narrow world.

For the lake shore, step into the sandy beach about 50 m wide that is formed on the shoreline. Fine, grainy, clean sand, hard to walk.

The water on Pearl Lake is really clean. They have more transparency than 20m, but on the other hand, it's a poor nutritional lake, so they don't feed enough and they don't fish much. The fish are now in North Sea City to the north of the continent and South Sea City to the south (both are just docks now, instead of the city, but there are a lot of fishermen who are straining to make it the biggest fishing base right away, so that will happen soon. Fish is important to the Japanese.) They are prepared to take fish from the sea, so they do not have to be taken at Pearl Lake. Mostly, fish are limited to those of the sea (some say).

For the Matsumura Water and Sewer Group, Pearl Lake is extremely important. This is a freshwater lake with a surface area of 315 thousand m2 and roughly 85% of the area of the Japanese archipelago with an area of 370 thousand km2, a quality of water that can be consumed as is. Since the average water depth will also be 215 m, the capacity will be as high as 68 trillion m3, with nothing to compare to on Earth.

The city of Pearl is planned as 200,000 cities as of now, but has a final planned population of 1 million. In the first place, it comes from the idea that there is no further inevitability of collecting populations, where large populations are culturally advantageous, but on the other hand at the expense of other cities.

Therefore, the concept of Pearl City is a city where one million people can live at leisure, with a clear development plan and size for each district.

Therefore, it is planned that the surface maintenance of the sewer facilities, consisting of the pipe network, should be put on board with its urban development plan, and that the water intake plan from Lake Pearl and the treatment plant plan for sewers and sewers will be increased from stage to stage.

As a matter of fact, the water quality of Lake Pearl today is adequate for drinking as it is, but due to the lack of historical water quality data, its water quality is not limited to warranty, so the upper water was to be fed by passing through the MF (microfilter) membrane and chlorine sterilization, just in case.

Also due to the strong demand that the current quality of water in Lake Pearl should not be degraded, the treatment of sewage is to be extremely advanced.

This is finally made into more advanced treated water by membrane filtration, using an active sludge membrane separation method, by biological treatment, by highly treating organic matter and the nitrogen that causes contamination in water, and by using a chemical called agglomerate, as well as the removal of phosphorus that causes contamination of water in the same way as nitrogen. In addition, it has been decided to use ozone to remove the colours that remain in the sewage treatment water.

This is beyond the current level of water treatment in Japan and is treated to a state where sewage treatment water, while appearing to be little different from that of Lake Pearl.

The tour ended that day at Pearl Lake, and the next morning, the driver of the tour bus took turns again from the sky, turning around the planned urban plan of the overall plan. This became extremely meaningful not only to the Matsumuras but also to all participants.

Subsequently, a group of Matsumura and others ended the basic design of Pearl City based on a field survey and entered into a detailed design for the first year of construction, but two of its members have turned to construction management for the time being, partly because they are already in construction based on the basic design and vice versa.

A month after arrival, the story of the planned design of water and sewerage facilities in the resource-development cities, which we have talked about for a long time, became concrete. This was to look at the current state of equipment in the provisionally known town of Kawagawa, where petrochemical plants, plus plastic plants, are accumulated, mainly oil production wells, and to measure future alignment.

As for the Kawagawacho facility, it is necessary for people to live in Japan as a matter of urgency, so Matsumura planned the facility in two days and made a package type design and equipment list.

This time, after hearing about the actual constructed checks and future plans for the future town of Kawakawa - which will be a city in the future - such as the current population plan, urban plan, etc., the task is to formulate a basic plan for its water and sewer supply and design it in detail up to the last 10 years or so.

Matsumura boarded an aerial plane (this is what the flying commuter is called) with a twist and headed for Kawagawa Town. The aerial vehicle rises vertically from the take-off zone, but it can be seen that work on the concrete slab in the space port has progressed a lot. Looks like we've set up another 1 km square.

It is about an hour's flight from Pearl City to Kawagawa town, 400 km away.

Lowering altitude, Kawagawa town is inland about 10 km from the eastern edge of Pearl Lake, with many silver oil well facilities, petrochemical plants and plastic plants under construction and very prominent facilities. Separating the snug hills between the mountains, you can see a slowly bent river about 20 m wide on the other side from these factory groups. Although that river would be the origin of the town of Kawakawa, Matsumura planned to dig wells for the water intake of the turbulent water on the shores of that river, and designed to supply the groundwater only with chlorine sterilization.

The town of Kawagawa has a street carved about 1 km across the hill, with bumps and buildings and a standardized detached house.

The aerial aircraft landed vertically in an empty space built for take-off and landing of aerial aircraft in the city and stopped in front of a two-story, unchanging building.

"Thank you. Well, I'll pick you up here tomorrow at 16: 00 as planned," says the pilot.

"So far, thank you. Thank you. Thank you tomorrow" Matsumura says thank you.

Matsumura and Izumi greet each other by entering the front door of the building, where several people are entering and exiting, and opening the office like door on the ground floor. "My name is Matsumura, and I design it. I'd like to see the administrator, Shimura."

Of about five people in there, a middle-aged woman said, "Yes, I'm asking. Okay, here it is," he says, opening the door in the corner of the room.

"Shimura-san, you can see O00 Designer." Matsumura and Shimura also go inside and greet the skinny Shimura with their heads down, where 40 teases of gray hair are already noticeable.

"Here we go, Matsumura with the ○ ○ ○ design, and this is ○. Yanagi from the company told me."

"Hey, there you are. Hey, thanks for asking. Matsumura-san designed our water and sewer facility."

"Yeah, I did it in Japan."

"Hey, I'm glad you put it together accurately in the short term. Mostly, I arrange and construct things as those drawings and specs say, and they work fine. Well, have a seat."

and I point to the conference desk and sit myself down.

"The volatile water in the river is of good water quality and helpful. About 20,000 tons a day seems to be fine with the results of the water lifting test. Sewage is also treated without problems with membrane treatment plants. This time, however, we have a large framework for the long and medium-term plan for urban planning, so we need to have a long and medium-term plan for water and sewerage facilities as part of it, so you have come. This is the plan," they give you about 50 pages of booklets.

Later, after Shimura explained the plan and roughly finished the conversation, 50 teasing men sneer in as they are eating lunch served in a separate room.

"Mr. Matsumura, it's been a long time. I was looking forward to receiving your e-mail yesterday. We met in Tokyo three years ago, right?"

"Oh, Sakayama! Long time no see. I'm glad you look good. And you burned it in the day."

Matsumura and Sakayama had been together for a year on the Abu Dhabi project and became drinking friends at that time, meeting for a while in Tokyo. I knew Narayama had been building a plant in Kawagawa Town, and I was happy to contact him because I was going.

"I'm getting a house because my family is already coming. It's big enough for you to stay with me." Sakayama says.

"No, we had the lodging booked from the city. I'll stay that way. Matsumura-san is at the corner, so why don't you take care of him"?

"Yeah, well, I guess you should stay over there. Either way, let's have a drink. Is there a store like that?" Matsumura says.

"Yeah, well, there's something to feed you there. Okay, can I have the front door of this building at 5: 30?" Nariyama returns once.

Matsumura and Nariyama warmed Kugaku and, after all, lived just an hour away from each other, so they drank it with pleasure.